Futures Point to Higher Open

U.S. stock market futures edged higher with investors awaiting a clutch of data, including weekly jobless claims, John Shipman reports on the News Hub. Photo: Reuters.

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... the the ... so far ... we get the detail that humanity thirty was all positive we had a ... big drop in ... initial jobless claims fourteen thousand ... to ... two three fifty one year really grew to four hundred thousand more that which which we so into it but for a run for months yet so the brain of a four week moving average ... bust a flat so that's around three fifty six nobody will take that it's not a bad sign on ... also love PPI got that that was actually that the headline was a little bit of less hot than expected one up by four point four percent ... of the synergies of hearts and exactly yes and and ... that ... obviously it employed by high energy prices there but the quarts the ... same point two which was what was expected ... and although in the New York Fed's of March ... um key John manufacturing ... which was strong and that was of better than expected and was up on a lot but there's a couple of things in that report that were ... a little bit Tom concerning Ainoa while there is a drop of the new borders ... drop in shipments ... the good stuff on was that the employment and work with both one of ... the living I would point out of this report to that was a little bit concerning maybe for businesses and helping to translate to solving its earnings is that ... the prices that they're paying for stuff ... is going up and that's probably energy related ... but the prices they receive the receive for their goods went down so up ... to me that suggests that they might be little margin pressure is right there in the world is going up to sell right something's gotta give their ... employers are can either come through ... they can control the prices they pay ... up they can control what things cost so ... are or where consumers and other products ... us that it probably did it ... jobs ... and prices I was talking about women in inflation right and one of things that we seem to companies in terms of trying to be some increases in Manly is intense ... and so the kids their costs low there we saw in God ... in February ... the temp hiring was up like forty or forty five thousand ... um war role to solve the market reacted as it said was an interesting dynamic to think they're the market of this is good data ... the market on turn to futures basically remained ... of flat where they were so the Dow futures were up about twenty five to twenty points ... SNP futures dropped off for ... and I think the interesting aspects of this is ... with this this the sort of bomb parade of better data ... sets up the tension between ... um you know we are really get more quantitative easing for the head of the war that we see this better data ... war that suggests that were not Guinea get when Kiwi which isn't necessarily great for the stock market because the ball really ... you know ... that all fall ... easy money ... and so I think you're seeing a little bit of that reaction in a sort of temper reaction in the futures this morning because you know that does not have the nuts are more free money moment the market but if the recovery does accelerate in the back your diary ... and of course ... the Fed is hoping for doesn't have to use the search for other investors right but not one of things you know if the more single women just go jump backwards talking about is that earnings growth slows has slowed sharply ... and you really stock market stock prices he off on ... the pace of earnings growth ... and so he might be seeing more of a focus on fundamentals stuff like that ... as opposed to you how much more liquidity is our central banks pumped into the market are nice and usually about where the euro ... has been ignoring whatever slower earnings growth are talking ... right of the conclusion was that John Shipman about well ... eventually that that stuff will have to reassert itself when the Fed ... source the pullback will that God only knows when and where oil prices remain had been a lot people think could be now ... more it what were seen arriving in Indiana this interesting stuff happening there yesterday we saw a big drop in home prices are down about one percent posting stabilize the rough a little bit sporting a huge drop in gold yesterday ... aam ... big drop in US Treasuries the yield on the ten year is over ... yield two point three percent now ... which is moved up like thirty basis points and Dana Hanna